#bc they were like a dollar each and i aint stupid

[r0ugarou]

I know its been years but the thing that baffles me to this very day about the whole "Raymond from animal crossing" fiasco is that you can get a fully functional bootleg AC amiibo for like less than 5 dollars on etsy. They work and look exactly the same (and arguably are better bc they're usually on a thick plastic card and thus are more durable.)

Like people were sending death threats and spending hundreds of real actual money to get this boring cat and bootleg amiibos were. right there.

[firelord-frowny]

oh my FUCKIN GOD???

So, as you can see, the above tickets are for the concert in New Jersey, when I originally wanted to go to the one in Philedelphia because it’s about an hour closer to where I live. 

But I go on the wells fargo center website at noon to purchase tickets and it was just glitchy as fuck! Errors everywhere! Crashes! Probably due to the ~high volume of whatever the fuck~, but the ticketmaster site wasn’t crashing! None of the other sites linked from mcr’s site were crashing! Just wells fucking fargo! (wells fargo?? more like bads nearstay!) I even went and checked on some reselling sites that had tickets available, but they were all like upwards of 400 fucking dollars and i aint about that life. 

So i keep trying to get through on the wells fargo site. and then finally, FINALLY, it lets me get to the first page - the page where i can click “find tickets.” So I clicked! Waited for like another 5 minutes while it loaded... AND THEN IT CRASHED AGAIN!!

So I did that like 5 fuckin times and it crashed each time!  

Now by this point, I’ve already decided to try to see if i could get NJ tickets as like a backup, so I have that tab open to, and it has me in a queue with “2000+” people in front of me. so im waiting in this one, too flipping back and forth between tabs. 

FINALLY WELLS FARGO LETS ME THROUGH TO SELECT SEATS.  It says the price range is between 79-199 bucks all of which is within my price range for two tickets (so i can hopefully get a pal to buy the other ticket off of me and we can go together bc i don’t wanna go allone lmao) so I selected for them to just pick out the best available seats. I get to the checkout page. Success! 

OR IS IT???

No! 

Now it wants me to ~create an account to proceed~! 

So I’m like! Okay! Fine! So I click “register”... AND NOTHING HAPPENS. Just. NOTHING. The link goes NOWHERE. 

And I’m googling around trying to find a direct link to where I can make an account, but all the links are just acting like they’re dead! “Nothing here” “error” “this page is empty” etc etc. Meanwhile, this entire time wells fargo is counting down the minutes until the tickets I chose are no longer reserved for me. And then time fucking runs out!

So I’m like, damn, these people are going to make me pick up the fuckin phone and call them like im some kind of ADULT or whatever the fuck. So I fuckin called the number! And it’s like! “press 1 for the wells fargo center, press 2 fo blah, press 3 for blah,” and it lists like 7 numbers. The whole fuckin time, I’m pressing 1. And nothing is happening. NOTHING IS HAPPENING! So I’m just! Mashing 1 over and over again! And then FINALLY it’s like “we’re sorry, due to the high volume of calls, fuck you.” IT WOULDN’T EVEN LET ME WAIT ON THE PHONE!! 

So I’m like fuck this shit i’m out! 

So I go back to the new jersey one! BUT NOW TICKET PRICES HAVE GONE UP BY LIKE A HUNDRED FUCKING DOLLARS! And I’m still trying to select the lowest price for the most decent seats I can find, but everry fucking time I click “buy now” on one, it’s like “oops! another fan got them first!” 

And I’m like! You’re seriously I don’t even have time to fucking read how much the tickets are or see where they’re located??? but im DETERMINED to not miss MCR, so I just start clicking shit at random as fast as I can! And then FINALLY I’m able to get to the checkout page! The total is like five fucking hundred dollars! But I’m like! Okay! Fine! FINE! Just take my fucking money and leave me alone! But oh, stupid me, I decided to at least try to see where the seats are before I finalize the purchase... AND THEN WHEN I CLICK “PLACE ORDER” IT TELLS ME THE TICKETS ARE GONE!

I!!! SCREAMED!!!!

So I go back to clicking on shit at random! And it takes me like another 5 minutes for it to let me through to the checkout page. And all I do is fuckin glance at the price of SIX HUNDRED AND FORTY TWO FUCKING DOLLARS and, while seething with boiling, putrid rage and contempt for all of humankind and their vile technologically hedonistic advancements, I fucking buy the tickets. I buy them. LIKE A DUMB BITCH. 

But I had the foresight to also buy ~ticket protection~ because dammit, I wasn’t gonna give up on philly.

So i go back to the wells fargo page... 

WHAT DO YA FUCKIN KNOW, SUDDENLY IT STARTS COOPERATING. 

So I finally buy the fuckin philly tickets for 450 bucks. 

and now I have to get my refund for that damn jersey shit. 

i’m stressed out and i wanna go back to bed! 

IM A DUMB BITCH AND I HATE MYSELF

[1000-rat-corpses]

here's a little behind the scenes on my toreba addiction in the form of a little baring the ugly, and a little bit of '2020 the year of the pandemic in review' loool

i post my wins on toreba in those big ol walls of shit, right

WELLLL, it aint all sunshine and rainbows...

first the depressing part.

you should SEE the level of fails i go through to get to the point where i can post those compilations. just now i spent what would have been like... 42 dollars of points (23 plays) and didn't win the fucking thing, bailed bc i wasnt sure what to do and had like idk 2 plays left of points, then someone fixed the prize's position in one shot, passed it to another person, and that person won it in 2 plays. i was right behind the winner bc i had requeued hoping my two plays could do it.

the kicker is that if i hadn't fucked it up in the beginning part by bringing it just like idk a half inch too far right, it could have been won in 5-6 plays.

5-6 versus 23, and no win. lol that shit does get to you, bc tho it's not real money im spending it's a lot of time and effort goes into earning free points so the sting is sharp and biting, and it sits on you for the rest of the day, and sometimes days after bc you no longer have that stash of points you were working for and stockpiling for so long.

i earned a lot of points for my brother's account by doing some shitty mobile game offer. i won about 3 things with something like 240 dollars of points bc i was impatient, and he wanted this goku figure. i really wanted to win it for him bc like, thats a nice thing to do right? im winning all these other things for myself so surely i can get him the one thing he really wants (ftr i have won him like at least 6 things he likes/wanted so there is that) butttttt i stupidly got all sunk cost fallacy on that machine. i won the goku with my VERY last available play. in total costing me something like 100+ dollars of points. i whaled on a miku figure i already won 3 of bc i got baited on a machine that looked 'good', and spent 90 in points on her. i whaled on a similar machine for a shitty ugly looking edward elric figure: 74 dollars worth. 72 on some stupid pocaccho plush. and these are just a few.

my worst offense was a 3am depression whale. 125k tp (125 dollars worth) gone down the drain for this lil dude. and i did not win him. ever.

because i love persona 3. and i had won THREE of the persona 4 version of this, but minato who i like way more eluded me....and the night before i passed off a one shot win to another person thinking it wasn't good. LOL. the machine i played on was total ass, and my skill wasn't up to par i guess bc it got close so many times only to be reset. i kept whaling until i reset it for the millionth time and decided to let go bc there was no progress. my friends in discord were like bro you gotta let go but even tho you've got people telling you to stop sometimes it's really really hard. the hatred i had for myself for that stupid ass whale session for probably like a week was *chef's kiss* IMMACULATE. for the record, i could have just bought him for like, 23 dollars including shipping from a website doing preorders. OR i could have just sold one of my p4 spares to make money to buy him. but no it was like, you gotta win it. i would have been 100% satisfied if i had just won him after 125k tp spent. at least i told myself that. honestly i think i would have.

now here's the sappy part.

probably what is surprising to most people is that the social aspect of this game is phenomenally rewarding. i've made sooo many new friends during quarantine. we've had so much fun across all types of media even outside of getting in voice to help each other win prizes or just give someone company while they whale a bunch of free points (these are fun nights!!). we also host movie streams together, play games together, fuck around with the mudae bot with waifu gacha and waifu wars, bitch about low ball offers on mercari lol, and try to console and help each other out in our channel called 'gamblers hotline' lol. we've seen the rise and fall of the main, singular toreba discord at the time and witnessed it get nuked for no reason bc the owner hd a meltdown lol, then watched our tiny group refrom TWICE until we got it right, then watched on the side eatin popcorn while two new 'main' discords began to fight for dominance.

we change our nicknames in discord on the fly bc it's fucking funny, and to hold ourselves accountable. I was [Punished Lycoris] after that 125k p3 whale and fail, and for a while stuff like [Lyco - FREE PLAY ONLY DAY 3] to show we're keeping our responsible streak up XD

this all sounds pretty insane i guess bc 'gambling addict found family' doesn't really sound too...normal LOL. but i can't imagine what my 2020 would have been without them. it's kinda sappy i guess. it's nice to make friends you can talk to until 3am night after night with actual voices when the pandemic had you feeling some type of way.

the days of tons of points we had back in the fall-winter of 2020 is pretty much over though - the nature of our free point offers has kinda changed so we dont hold those fun night time streams of others playing, but we're hanging in there i guess.

sooo yeeah. i could write so much more, but ill stop there lol

this is what us fucked up addicts go through lmfao